THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1985.
FEATURES FOR BOYS AND
YOUR PUZZLE The World's Largest Rose Bush
CORNER
CROSSWORD
To give it a cireus touch, Car- Cal has placed this toonist week's crossword puzzle on the silhouette of an elephant:
ACROSS
1 The circus har side
0 The lion tamer is in con-
stant
Get up
8 Stormed
1 Mast
DOWN
2. Olympian goddess
3 Original (ab.)
4
Discreet
5
Winter vehicle
DIAMOND
You may see a GORILLA at the circus and the Puzzleman has used one for the centre of
his word diamond. The second
CIRCUS MIX-UPS
Rearrange the letters in each line to find the three circus peo- ple hidden in them:
TAB CORA
NORMA TILE
. SOUR OAT TUB
CIRCUS REBUS
GIRLS
Å SHORT STORY
Traces Back To A Homesick Girl The Wonderful Scheme
By Evelyn Witter
TOMBSTONE, once the
mightiest city between El Paso and San Francisco, known for its. history of gun fights and cruel moba, celebrates an- other kind of riot every year in April or May. "The Town Too Tough to Dio" has a
By using the words and ple-Rose Festival then in cele- tures to full advantage, you'll bration of its riot of roses, easily And the four things you enn see at a cligus which have been concealed in this rebus;
P Y
+T
ZF
I LIKE
HER
(Solutions en' Page 20)
HOW AMAZE
word is "a spinning toy"; third HOW
"beginners":
name";
fifth
parrot'sTO
and sixth "cruffy," Finish the diamond from the
given clues;
G
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GORILLA
L
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YOUR FRIENDS HERE'S HOW TO CUT A STRING IN HÄLF! AND MAKE YOUR FRIENDS BELIEVE YOU HAVE PUT IT TOGETHER AGAIN.
HIDDEN CIRCUS ANIMALS 1.CUT A LONG RUBBER BAND
INHALF... TIE ONE END TO A SAFETY PIN...THE OTHER TOA 1ait a hidden elreus animal, HEAVYSTRING LOOP. Can you And them?
Each of these sentences con-
The field was full of dande- Hons.
The prospector decided to pan the remainder of the pile before slopping for the day,
INGENIOUS ANIMAL MADE
WITH
COORD
3/1, miten
RUBBER BAND
SAFETY PN
2.PIN THE RUBBER BAND ON THE INSIDE OF YOUR LEFT SLEEVE SOIT JUST REACHES YOUR CUFF.
3.HOLD A PIECE OF THE SAME STRING IN YOUR LEFT HAND SCRAPS | LIKE THIS.... WHILE AD ONE
BOTTLE GORK
LONGHORN
RUBBER
HORNS
CARDBOARD
HEAD PINNED TO
CORK
PIN LEAS то CORK
You
· can
mike ingchious
animals with scraps like bottle corks and rubber jar rings.
IS WATCHING
PULL THE LOOP
OUT AND HOLD IT LIKE THIS.
HIDDEN LOOP
The town can be proud of its roses, for it has the big- gest rose bush in the world. The bush first got its title as The Biggest from stranger-than-fiction author who wrote:
THE WORLD'S LARGEST ROSE
TREE HAS 88,000 BLOOMS AND
COVERS 1750
QUARE FEET-
糖
WHAT THIS TOWN
DOES, IT DOES
EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TODAY TO MAKE THE ROBE THE
IN A BIG WAY?
NATIONAL FLOWER OF AMERICA.
THIS LARGE ROSE TREE, WHILE BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD, GROWE IN -WHAT WAS ONCE ONE OF THE
ROUGHEST TOWNG IN THE COUNTRY- TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA -
"Eighty-eight thousand blooms on one rese bush, the world's largest rose bush, in Tombstone Ariz., covers 1,750 square feet. A hundred people can be, and, in fact, have been. comfortably seated to lunch at the same time beneath the giant rose bush that grows in the patio of the Rose The bride was terribly lone Tree In Mure than 7,000 some in the rough, strange min- bouquets of
dozen flowers Ing town, and wrote to her par- cach might be picked from its ents back in Scotland all about branches at once and still leave a few thousand roses."
But what puzzles some visitors to Tombstone is how the rose came to this desert region in the first place. Of course, there are many different stories about the origin of this unbelievable rose
in the then new mining industry of Tombstone.
how she felt.
The folks wanted to cheer her and so they sent her a sip from a bitsh of white roses in their garden. They thought this little bit of home would be a pleasant sight and would ease her lonell- ness in the strange and dimeult to be her country which was home.
lass planted the slip from the white Lady Bank- sin rose from Scotland and tended it carefully. IL grew That more beautiful each year. was over 60 years ago. Today it is world famous.
bush. The one which most The Scotch people believe is true is the one about a
a homesick girl, It seems
that once there was: a sweet young Scottish bride who was married to an English- Mr Gee was sent to Tombstone by his com- pany, which had money invested
man, H. M. Ges.
And Lady Banksia might be- come even more important in
A MINIATURE
GARDEN
TAVE you ever seen a
Hurge jar or odd-shaped bottle completely filled with growing plants and won- dered how so many things could grow in such a small space?
There's really no trick to growing these glassed-in gardens or terrariums, and how. delightful they can be all winter, growing at your window.
Let me tell you how to make onc. Then hike into the woods for your materials.
ANY CLEAR, GLASS BOTTLE IS FINE
TERRARIUM
MATERIAL
Any clear glass bottle or big- mouthed jar is Bne terrarium material. But for our purpose
Choose several here, lot's use a large-mouthed easy to grow.
specimens with good roots. gallon jar with a good lid.
BASIC MATERIALS
For basic materials, you'll need a coarse strainer, a funnel, a tin of tiny gravel, a few lumps of charcoal, and two or three small coloured rocks,
Bury roots well to hold plants up. Plant a small Coleus slip for colour, Sprinkle a dew grass seeds to "carpet" the garden.
Boomerangs
DECAUSE Joan Allen and Carey were
B Joyce
friends of the sume ugo, they enjoyed playing to- gether.
Jonn's brother, Barry, being a boy and so much younger than they, was a bother to them. When forced to, they unhappily dragged him along. Poor Barry could never keep his skates on and they had to keep fixing his straps. When swimming, they had to stay in the shallow water for Barry couldn't swim. Besides, he naked endless questions.
(LITTLE BOYS
CAN'T REACH
HIGH ORAPES, BARRY/
The girls looked meaningly each other and triect not giggle.
to
"I can't reach," he said sadly. The day wore on and the
grape picking soumed to take longer and longer. Tho giris worked more slowly, chattered less. Their backs ached and their hands were slained and tired. The job wasn't múch fun any more.
"Can't we stop picking?" ask- ed Joyco.
"Mother fald we had to finish the job it wo did it without Barry's help. I'm sick of look- ing at these old grapes. Barry can't reach them, and he's not allowed on the ladder, I gueSB we're stuck." She looked long- into the basket, caling them, too, ingly at Barry who was con- as they went along, Joan's tentedly snipping away at the mother called to the girls. "Why paper box. "He looks like he's There was, grupe arbour don't you girls leave the bottom having fun," she added be- the future if two women mem- hers of Congress have anything in Joan's yard. The for Bany to do?"
grudgingly.
women. Rep.
to say about it. These two children had been watching "Oh, no, Mother," walled
Frances Bolton
"They don't taste so good any
Do you feel a
of Ohio, and Sen. Margaret the grapes turn from a pale Joan. We don't want his help. more," said Joyce. "I think I Chase Smith of Maine, in- green to red, and finally, at We're doing this purposely." troduced legislation on Jan. 10 long last to a deep dark
mused "So that's it," asking that the rose be
United States.
made
In a brief speech in the House, Mrs Bolton said:
"The United States is the only major country in the without a national flower.
nte too many. Mrs little dickish?"
.
Joan nodded sympathetically. on and on they worked.
the fational nower of the Purple. The day the grapes Allen. "Well be sure you finish were ready to be picked, the job if you're so anxious to
Mrs Allen slood in the door- Joan winked slyly at Joyce do it without him." and said, "Barry, we need a Later Barry walked into the way watching. She smiled to house for our paper dolls, yard, dragging a big box be herself, "I guess they've learn
ed their lesson. The beast laid Run to the grocery store hind him. "Let me help, let me plans of mice and men go oft and see if you can get a help! Why didn't you wait for
He stood on tiptoe and ustray," cardboard box. You
could me?"
the grapes, strained to reach cut out windows and doors but he couldn't quite make it. and make us a nice house."
world
"The rose has long repre- ,sented courage, loyalty, love and devotion, and has become an in- ternational symbol of peace.... Recent opinion polls show roses to be
overwhelming Big
the of
American favourite people."
Should the rose become the American nationul flower, then Tombstone's biggest rose bush would become important as the biggest bearer of the national flower.
Tombstone is
Barry Jumped up to do his errand and the girls ran to the, arbour.
"That ought to keep him away "Let's for awhile," suld Joun. pick fast."
FERN SIMMS
Have Fun With The Atmosphere
THEO
I've a wonderful idea," cried Joyce. "He can't reach the top grapes. Why don't we pick the low ones first? Then when he returns, only the high ones will
THE results of the fol- inches long and less than be left and he won't be able to
lowing simple experi- an inch thick. Allow about He'll be disgusted reach them.
inches to project and go off to play somewhere ment are so startling that four else."
at first they seem hard to lengthwise beyond the table,
as shown (A). Place on a smooth table
Cover the remainder of top (C) a piece of wood 8 or the board with 8 or 10 12 inches wide, about 18
sheets of newspaper
сп transcon- tinental U.S. Highway 80, in case you have the opportunity to see the biggest rose bush in the The girls laughed as they explain. world for yourself.
dropped the luscious
A Magical Super Zoo
-It Has Two-Headed Dragons and à Unicorn
By MAX' TRELL
MR MERLIN the Magnificent Magician Ilved somewhere behind the bookcase. It was hard to discover exactly where he lived because the door that lod to his house was a magical sort of door and kept moving around. One day it was here and the next day it was there.
But this isn't the story we're about to tell you.
Bag of Peanuts
grapes
·Z-25 The first animal they saw was a two-headed dragon.
Merlin, They are only pictures
Madagascar Honours French Marshal
NOR all the splendours it given the world,
France cannot be said to have a brilliant record as a colonial Power. She lost Indo-China whin that rice
have rich country could been held by a more en- lightened policy. She faces a similar disaster in Algeria And only in and Morocco.
been Tunisia has revolt avorted by giving the people of home a large measure rule.
The story we're about to tell you is how Knarf and Hanid, the
with shadow children
the turned-about names, went to the On one side, the viewing side, zoo with Mr Merlin. leave an open space for coloured gravel and the larger rocks. It was one of the strangest on record. We'd boller Ordinary potting soil is fine Here you might also place a zoos
glass frog or start, from the beginning, 4.CUT LOOP INter some plants, but wild ferns small plastic or
and planta obtained from the turtle.
Knart and Hanid met Mr woods require leaf mould, the
Water the completed jar Merlin Just outside the book- soil formed from decayed leaves found growing in damp, shady moisture. If the eldes of the jar He was dressed in a black and very
suit (which re- passed the lion's cage, the lon whisper of discontent is the places, for. the garden founda- stay moist, your garden is fine white striped
and needs no extra water. minded Hanid of a zebra) and came out smoking a briar pipe island of Madagascar, off tion.
he carried along a big bag of peanuts.
HALF... WITH A FEW MAGIC WORDS SAY YOU WILL PUT IT TOGETHER AGAIN. ... NOW LET THE CUT LOOP FLIP BACK UP YOUR
SLEEVE AND HOLD UP THE LONG STRING!
ZOO'S WHO
40,
Trus
"THE WORLD'S STRON EST CREATURE IN PR
'TOSIZE ACCORDING
ENTOMOLOGISTS, S THE SEETLEN WHICH COULD LIFT A WEIGHT OF SIXTY TONS IF IT WERE AS LARGE AS A MAN.
CUCKOOS AND A FEW. OTHER SPECIES LAY THEIR EGGS IN NESTS OF OTHER BIRDS, LETTING THE FOSTER PARENTS HATCH THE EGGS
AND RAISE THE YOUNGA
(CELL-IN THEIR BRIK WHICH ANHEN THEY ARE ENLARGE
ARE CONTRACTED
in books,"
But Mr Merlin only smiled. Most of the animale in this
were
But among the French! possessions overseas from
(B),
The paper should be creased by the fingers around the edges into the angle formed by the board and the sur- face of the table;
CAN YOU LIFT-THE PAPERS ?
B
than th
PLACE NEWSPAPERS OVER BOARD AND CREASE AROUND
EDGES-
Now, even light pressure with the finger at A will
under trees. Use green moss, lightly and, cover to hold the case quite early in the morning, Extraordinary super zoo
friendly. When they which we hear not even raise up the opposite end,
Place moss ploces close to- gether, green side down, over- the boltom and up on the sides of the far to a height of about three inches,
Next udd
don't have to be afrald
the lion said.
"I like East Africa. FOR BEST GROWTH
of mo,
thank you, Mr There, eminently successful poople. No, Place in full light but not in
"I hope you like going to the Merlin, I don't care much for methods of colonial government direct Bun for best growth.zoo," Bir Merlin said.
Peanuts. I much prefer sirloin steak.' Prune occasionally to prevent overcrowding.
Big Brown Bear
They took a bus to the end of thin layer of
Remove plants when they the Has and then another bus to gravel mixed with crushed pieces
Cover with sifted become too large or diseased the end of another line. Knarf of charcoal.
The most interesting animal leaf mould, put, in through a Replant with different thing and Hand had never been out in the whole super zoo was.a funnel to keep jar sides clean. from time to time for added that far before but as they got big, brown bear. He invited Mr Even experiment off the bus at the end of the Merlin and Knart and Hanid into Fill to top of moss, about three enjoyment,
with different kinds of seeds and second line, Mr Merlin sailed his den and did tricks for them inches deep.
plants,
and pointed ahead. And sure like standing on his head, and Until you learn more about
Can you think of a nicer In-enough, there was a big sign juggling watermcion glassed-in gardens, use hardy
which read: Super Zoo. farns from the woods that are door' hobby?
Rupert und Dinkie-16
Rupert laps, keen as Titechly to find the lost wand, and he helps her to search step by step through the rough undergrowth until bow
› reaches 1 steep bank. Now, me
htat, take long time."*.** would 11: akclaims, Rupätt.“. Then he has an idea. ** Wa need help," he declareas of
These Cuides up the hilf
forest, how, to, one is hys, Them They will comen
Must march · both waynion (the runt. NW29) OF FUN WIRES.
CALL BIGNTE, RESERVADS,SAtt
And be
feot.
with his
BUT the most violent quick blow that can be delivered by the fist at A
the table! In fact, the pro will not raise the board from jecting end can be splin- tered and broken by a quick blow from a hammer,, al- moat as if the board were bolted or nailed tö the table.
Why? This surprising effect is due to atmospheric procure, When a quick blow is struck at were put into operation many tho
erict, the projecting of France's newspaper forms, a temporary Knart and Hanld both looked The trouble with most zoos," years ago by ono
most distinguished soldiers Joint between the board and the at Mr. Merlin in surprise. "Why, said Mr Merlin to Knarf and Marshal, Louis Lyautey.
and a partial vacuum is we've never been to this, zoo be. Hanid, as they rode back to the
produced under the board. As He was made Hould said.
a marshal for fore!
of the line on the beginning Bo they all went in.
hla work not in Madagascar, a result, the great atmospheric buses, that the animals never The first animal they saw was got friendly
ROVETOPICSsure acting on the surface enough
with the but in Morocco. The a dragon with two heads] people who come to visit them.ment sent him there in 1912 to of the board holds it down
Knart and Harld could hardly Oh dear, I've still got almost all quell disorders and consolidate Armly. balfeve their own eyes, Knarf the peanuts. Won't you have the recently declared
torat citately
Protot-
As an illustration of what this kald: We've never even seen, a sorrie?"
on arrival he pressure may be dragon with one head let alone So Knarf and Hanid helped
that the portion of the boug one with two heads, Mr Merlin" Mr Marlin cat all the peanuts. rolloved the Harrison Bosfoged the tano is 8 by 12 licher We But the most curious thing of all in the town of Fer and Initiated was this. When Knart and the work of pacification and have then, 88 square inches. At Hand took the bus to the end colonimation which was to result
a week later and in the creation of a well or two peanuts, one for each head. then took the second bus to the ganised government on a solid
The next animal they saw a ond of the
Bond line, they basis.
The Unicorn
Mr. Merlin threw the creature of the line
Erosso with
pressure of 10 pounds to the square inch, the total downward
borrere detine on.
the board, is 1,440 pounds,
The board used arould have waware, the purpodo
o large pointed alan't bona to any Super Zoo at Later, Lysuley organised vic forms in the middle of his men sey, came to was a big, forfous resistance to attacks of month Vartade de pe cover. theady
empty lot
Tilaa - unicorn, he said Ben. Haven't you ever
Mr Hanld cigbad. soon
the
the Rif tribesmen under Abdel Kime.
trouble with Maglelans. Every Marshal Loqutey died in 1984, faling, ibuyahow you ir mazó, He now bar ourod in this | ever the animals in the 200 stamp from Madaga.com willen
London, et Ochs a
mich animals as tikksaw, two-headed dragon, again
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